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Claude 09ef5f4eea Revise the Markdown docs against the code and the fork's state
Checked every claim that names a setting, default, log line, binding or
script against the source, and brought the docs up to date with the
Steam Frame build:

- README: the recommended settings show their Frame defaults (render
  scale 0.8, resolution multiplier 1) and add eye-tracked foveation and
  the refresh rate; the settings panel's gamepad-mode button (both
  sticks); by-hand release tags moved to frame-beta-2; the AI usage note
  points at a section that exists.
- OPENXR.md: the intro and requirements cover all three backends; the
  Linux Vulkan backend, its patched Dawn and time conversion; Frame
  defaults for render scale and culling; the Frame controller profile in
  the binding list and limitations; foveation on the Frame and its
  per-map memory; scope of passthrough and tracked hands; Linux log path.
- quest-port.md: Known gaps rewritten (it still said the app had not run
  on a Quest, foveation was off by default, haptics unused and the pack
  not downloadable); intro names every product sharing the spec.
- DISTRIBUTION.md: how this fork's source-only frame-* releases are made.
- THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md: libco's aarch64 backend, Dawn built from source
  for the Quest and the Frame, and the tools the Frame installer fetches.
- CONTRIBUTING, RELEASE_VALIDATION, android/README, translator/README,
  building-macos: fork context, broken pointers, list formatting, typos.
- aurora-main/README: drop a screenshot that was not vendored.

All relative links and anchors resolve.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019HBRGKTE1GnN2ah8gcZKr3
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Wiicompiled Static Recompiler

The translator parses GameCube/Wii DOL files, decodes PowerPC instructions, lifts them through IR/SSA and type inference, and emits C++ that is compiled into a native executable together with a runtime in runtime/. Project-specific paths and addresses are supplied through a versioned YAML manifest, so the translator itself contains no game-specific data.

Translating a DOL does not exempt you from owning the game it came from.

How translating a DOL works

A project manifest (YAML) names the input DOL and pins its layout; everything else is derived.

Translation is four commands:

  1. translate-recursive <entry-point> --project <manifest> walks the call graph from the entry point, decodes every reachable function, and emits C++ (plus JSON metadata describing what was emitted).
  2. generate-data-init --project <manifest> writes the embedded .data/.rodata/.sdata section initializer and RuntimeConfig.h.
  3. emit-build-shards --project <manifest> emits the CMake build graph (shards.cmake) covering both generated sources and runtime/src.
  4. CMake + Ninja with Clang compiles runtime/ plus the generated output into one executable.

Discovery is purely recursive from the entry point unless the manifest provides an optional function_map (one hexaddr name per line) that seeds additional function boundaries. Unsupported instructions fail translation by default.

See projects/examples/generic-dol.yml for a minimal manifest driven by RECOMP_GENERIC_DOL.

Prerequisites

Tool Notes
.NET 8 SDK Builds and runs the translator.
CMake ≥ 3.16 and Ninja Configures and drives the native build.
Clang / LLVM The Windows build uses LLVM-MinGW targeting x86-64-v3; the Steam Frame build uses LLVM 22 for ARM64 (Launcher/prepare-portable-tools.sh). MSVC is not the tested path.

Build the CLI once and invoke the assembly directly:

dotnet build translator/src/Translator.Cli/Translator.Cli.csproj -c Release
$translator = 'translator/src/Translator.Cli/bin/Release/net8.0/Translator.Cli.dll'

Manifest essentials

  • inputs.dol.path - the DOL to translate; optional SHA-256 pinning rejects wrong revisions.
  • memory.base / size - guest address space.
  • memory.sda_base / sda2_base - the r13/r2 Small Data Area bases your DOL's boot code installs (lis/ori pairs in __init_registers). Required by any command that writes RuntimeConfig.h; the translator does not guess them.
  • translation.function_map.path - optional symbol map used as the discovery oracle.
  • translation.allow_unsupported_instructions - off by default; enabling it emits runtime traps instead of failing, and such a build can never ship.
  • translation.entry_observer - optional header, C symbol, and entry-point list for a read-only host observer. Its callback must accept (uint32_t, const CpuContext*); the translator materializes the complete guest context before every direct or transitive path that can reach it.

Relative paths resolve from workspace_root, which itself resolves from the manifest directory.

Commands

  • info [--project path]
  • translate-recursive <address> --project path
  • generate-data-init --project path
  • emit-base-manifest --project path
  • emit-build-shards --project path
  • translate-mod --project path [--profile name] ... - static Kamek/Pulsar module translation

Any command prints its own option list with --help.

Test

dotnet test translator/Translator.sln -c Release